that the costumes represent both a social as well as a moral "positions". The instant recognition of a character's behavior (for example, "Heather" in "The Man in Grey" is mentioned as being both malevolent and lower class) is what sets films like this apart from films that merely are "dressed" according to text-book descriptions of that period in time.
The setting is also important in two distinct ways in these films- both the social setting and the so-called mise-en-scene. The settings represent either the upper class or the bourgeoisie of the times portrayed. The idea of the mise-en-scene is to show the character's involvement and emotional tie or lack thereof, in the setting.
The analysis of the films also includes the type of music and sound. Sometimes, it seems, no dialogue is needed because the underlying music tells us all we need to know about the import of what is going on on the screen.
Do endings always need to be happy? It would seem that the era in which these films were made, both at the end of the Second World War and its aftermath,
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